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Provides a way for usercode to bind to priviledged ports via a daemon

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2013-07-20 · latest 2018-01-08

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  1. …is limited. Shame, as I think it's a good idea but way too late to be of any use these days. [1] https://github.com/spc476/ipacld [2] You can see a set of "rules" in this file: https://github.com/spc476/ipacld/blob/master/ipacl.lua
    comment by spc476 · 2018-01-08 · in What Are Capabilities?
  2. I wrote something similar for sockets ( https://github.com/spc476/ipacld ) but it's Linux only, since only Linux supports passing the userid/groupid/pid of a process across Unix domain sockets (and I use that for checking credentials).
    comment by spc476 · 2013-12-21 · in A tiny library to send file descriptors across processes
  3. …options to implement a Linux-only daemon to open privileged sockets on behalf of a process: https://github.com/spc476/ipacld (something I'm surprised has never been written before).
    comment by spc476 · 2013-07-20 · in systemd's syslogd replacement supports JSON output